About Dr Peter Beven

Peter is a Corporate Educator in Corporate Education within QUT’s Faculty of Business. In this role Peter teaches strategy, business planning, innovation and entrepreneurship within the range of Executive Programs including the Executive Masters of Complex Project Management and Executive MBA. He is also the Academic Coordinator for the Management Development Program, a non-award professional development program. Peter has senior and executive management experience across the private and public sectors with extensive experience in international markets such as China, the US and within the South East Asian region. He has strong expertise in strategic and business planning, project management, technology and R&D management, intellectual property management and commercialisation. Peter also sits on the Boards of a number of high growth technology companies and has previously resided on a number of government advisory boards.

2018 GBC: Where are they now? LISC (formally Gauntlet)

Posted by Dr Peter Beven on 11 October, 2019

Team Gauntlet, now known as LISC, winners of the 2018 Project Prize and overall 2nd place winners.

Gauntlet’s (now LISC) solution for the 2018 Smart Cities GBC was to handle evacuation problems in emergency situations in event venues such as stadiums. Read more

2018 GBC: Where are they now? R-Evolution

Posted by Dr Peter Beven on 4 October, 2019

Team R-Evolution, 2018 Global Business Challenge winners.

R-Evolution’s solution for the 2018 Smart Cities Global Business Challenge (GBC) was a digital platform called ‘Living technology together (LTT)’. The platform would allow cities and communities to define smart city programs such as improving health, reducing waste or improving energy efficiency. Read more

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Changing the world – one challenge at a time

Posted by Dr Peter Beven on 12 April, 2019

Team Memorial – Winners of the 2014 Global Business Challenge.

When the Global Business Challenge (GBC) started in 2014, we were excited to think where these ideas could end up and how the challenge could benefit communities globally.

2014 GBC: Where are they now? Impacts Solutions

Posted by Dr Peter Beven on 28 October, 2016

Impacts Solutions: (Left to right) Andrew Zaniewski, Joshua Salkeld, Matthew Kelly, Nathan Pugliese.

Impacts Solutions were the 3rd prize winners in the 2014 Global Business Challenge (GBC).

Team Impacts Solutions was a company with a vision of transforming communities through the delivery of water purification solutions in a way that represented the company’s principles of sustainable enterprise – People, Planet and Profit. Read more